March 14, 2004, Sunday

An obituary of the television news anchor David Brinkley last Friday misidentified the CBS newsman whose broadcast was overtaken in the ratings by NBC's ''Huntley-Brinkley Report'' in the late 1950's. He was Douglas Edwards, not Walter Cronkite.

AS always happens with the passing of an icon, the death of David Brinkley last week prompted much reflection about the end of an era. In this case, it was the era of the dominant news anchorman, personified by Mr. Brinkley and his contemporaries...

June 14, 2003, Saturday

David Brinkley, the wry reporter and commentator whose NBC broadcasts with Chet Huntley from 1956 to 1970 helped to define and popularize television news in America, died on Wednesday night at his home in Houston. He was 82. In 1950, when Mr....

David Brinkley once puckishly defined the secret strength of television news: ''When there is no news, we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.'' More beguilingly, Mr. Brinkley, who died on Wednesday night at the age of 82, had the...

June 13, 2003, Friday

ABC said yesterday that it had told the advertising agency for the Archer Daniels Midland Company that it would no longer accept commercials featuring the former television newsman David Brinkley. The ads show Mr. Brinkley in a role similar to the...

January 15, 1998, Thursday

To the Editor: I share Maureen Dowd's outrage that David Brinkley has become a shill for the agribusiness company Archer Daniels Midland (column, Jan. 7). Ms. Dowd mentions in passing the more disturbing aspects of the story. The company, a chief...

January 10, 1998, Saturday

No one who has known and admired David Brinkley -- and that includes me -- can be anything other than saddened by his new, undignified TV role as corporate spokesman for Archer Daniels Midland. But at least Mr. Brinkley waited to retire from...